Manuel Tinio

Manuel Tinio (17 June 1877-22 February 1924) was a Filipino general during the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine-American War. After the end of the guerrilla war against the United States, he served as Governor of Nueva Ecija as a Nacionalista Party member.

Biography
Manuel Tinio was born in Aliaga, Nueva Ecija, Philippines on 17 June 1877, and he came from the wealthiest family in the region; he was descended from Domingo Tinio, a Christianized Chinese immigrant. While he was a mischievous student who was unable to graduate due to pulling a prank, he was a born leader who led the Nuevo Ecijano students at his school. After pulling a prank on a Spanish Army officer and narrowly escaping, he joined the Katipunan in April 1896 at the age of 18 and led a group of teenaged guerrillas during the Philippine Revolution. He became one of the best-known revolutionary leaders, never sleeping in the same place and carrying out several narrow escapes during the guerrilla war against the Spanish; he captured 1,000 Spanish soldiers during the war. Tinio came to be the youngest general of the Philippine Revolutionary Army during the Philippine-American War, and he commanded an army in the northern Philippines during the struggle against the United States occupation forces. By 1900, his army was committed to guerrilla warfare, and, on 30 April 1901, he followed Emilio Aguinaldo's orders to surrender to the occupation forces. He served as Governor of Nueva Ecija from 1907 to 1929 and as Director of the Bureau of Lands from 1913 to 1914, and he died in 1924 at the age of 46.